Cheilitis glandularis (CG) is a rare disorder characterized by swelling of the lip with hyperplasia of the labial salivary glands. CG is most frequently encountered in the lower lip, in middle-aged to older Caucasian men; however Asian cases were rarely reported. In this paper we present two cases of CG in Asian-Japanese men. One was a 23-year-old male with CG of the superficial suppurative typ...

This paper summarises a conference that took place at the Royal College of Physicians about the work of the Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit (CEEu) and the National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions (NCC-CC). The importance of the clinical standards, audit, and evidence-based guidelines and their contribution to the clinical governance arena was acknowledged. In addition, co...

BACKGROUND Shiga toxin (Stx) are cardinal virulence factors of enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7 (EHEC O157). The gene content and genomic insertion sites of Stx-associated bacteriophages differentiate clinical genotypes of EHEC O157 (CG, typical of clinical isolates) from bovine-biased genotypes (BBG, rarely identified among clinical isolates). This project was designed to identify bacteriopha...

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This article looks at clinical governance and pathology. Clinical governance should be an important tool in seeking quality improvement within the National Health Service. But how as pathologists should we go about it?

INTRODUCTION The quality of nursing documentation is still a challenge in the nursing profession and, thus, in the health care industry. One major quality improvement program is clinical governance, whose mission is to continuously improve the quality of patient care and overcome service quality problems. The aim of this study was to identify whether clinical governance improves the quality of ...

This paper investigates the impact of global financial crisis (GFC; 2007–10) on and non-financial performance FTSE350 UK firms. study tests relationships among GFC, firm environmental, social governance (ESG; for performance) estimates moderating role ESG, corporate (CG) size in these relationships. Panel data from 2002 to 2018 across 351 firms are used. For estimation, random effect model is f...

We advance the practice transfer theorising of corporate governance (CG) by developing a framework that uncovers how foreign institutional investors (FIIs) improve on CG practices firms in weak environments. Using hand-collected data for 85 listed Nigerian covering 2011–2016 period, we show FIIs bypass regulatory environment emerging markets transferring good standards to host countries. Furthe...

This paper examines the nonlinear connection between corporate governance (CG) and leverage. Our study applied dynamic panel threshold model (DPTM) to facilitate capture of effect CG on a firm’s leverage for Japanese listed companies. Additionally, our sought demonstrate linkage speed adjustment (SOA), particularly following reforms in Japan’s system, reach targeted level The empirical findings...